Tour de Romandie Results - Stage 5
Overall win for Team Astana's Klöden; Final stage won by Bennati.
Team Astana's Andreas Klöden has won the 2008 Tour de Romandie. Klöden built on his successful time trial stage Friday in Sion to carry the yellow jersey all the way to Lausanne. The final stage sprint was won by Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) with Kazakh champion Maxim Iglinskiy taking 3rd.
“The victory was a real team victory”, commented team director Alain Gallopin. “Thomas Frei, Vladimir Gusev, Maxim Iglinskiy, Julien Mazet, Steve Morabito, Dmitriy Muravyev and Sergey Yakovlev, they all worked hard the whole week. In the last stage today 40 riders were in the breakaway on the Col des Mosses. All eight Astana ‘s were in that breakaway. I think we were simply the best team on the Swiss roads.”
The Astana cycling team won the overall team classification as well and the pro team once again leads the ProTour team classification.
For Andreas Klöden, the overall victory was his second win of the season. The 32-year-old rider is the first German ever to win the Tour of Romandy which has taken place since 1947. He will be one of the team leaders in the Tour of Italy, starting next Saturday.
Stage 5: May 4, 2008: Tour of Romandy: Le Bouveret - Lausanne (159.5 km):
1 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Liquigas 03:43:39
2 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner
3 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana
4 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC
5 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram
6 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team High Road
7 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team
8 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre
9 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
10 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
11 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r - La Mondiale
12 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre
13 Martin Kohler (Swi) BMC Racing Team
14 Eros Capecchi (Ita) Saunier Duval - Scott
15 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Silence - Lotto
16 Matej Jurco (Svk) Team Milram
17 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
18 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana
19 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
20 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quick Step
21 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux
22 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne
23 Josep Jufre Pou (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott
24 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
25 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux
26 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre
27 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole
28 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas
29 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team High Road
30 Adam Hansen (Aus) Team High Road
31 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre
32 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre
33 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto
34 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
35 Steve Morabito (Swi) Astana
36 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank
37 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team High Road
38 John Gadret (Fra) AG2r - La Mondiale
39 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux
40 Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux
41 José Angel Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval - Scott
42 Manuel Beltran Martinez (Spa) Liquigas
43 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole
44 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram
45 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval - Scott
46 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC
47 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa)
